Who is the bigger lying skank?  Wolfson, Penn or Hillary?

This case has Nancy Grace written all over it, but we cannot overlook it here on Crime Rant. We want to apologize for that right off ther bat.

There’s got to be a special place in hell for women who kill their children: most of us are probably on board with that idea. Yet, what if a mother places her baby in a microwave and hits “high” for a few minutes, or at least until the child’s insides burn up? Where, then, does that woman end up? Is hell too mild a punishment?

Jury selection began Monday in China’s trial. She is accused of killing her 1-month-old daughter by burning the child to death in a microwave oven.

But let me tell you, the state’s evidence is shoddy, at best. To be honest, I’m not even sure how or why this woman ended up on trial to begin with (although I have a pretty good idea, which I’ll kepe to myself).

Investigators believe China put her baby, Paris Talley, into a microwave at her home, but China’s attorneys argue she had nothing to do with the crime.

According to CNN, “Coroner’s officials have said the baby suffered high-heat internal injuries and had no external burns. They have ruled out scalding water, open flame or other possible causes of death that could have damaged the skin.”

This is an interesting case. One we need to watch closely. Here you have a woman who claims she had nothing to do with her daughter’s death and was “stunned when investigators told her that a microwave might have been involved.” It was China, after all, who took the baby to the hospital after finding her unconscious.

Last July, police Detective Michael Galbraith testified at a pre-trial hearing that China told him she arrived home during the early morning hours after drinking all night, fell asleep, and was awakened at 2:30 a.m. by the baby’s crying. She said she “warmed a bottle in the microwave oven, tried to give it to the baby, changed the child’s diaper and then fell asleep on the couch with the baby on her chest.” China and her children were the only people in the apartment until her boyfriend arrived several hours later and noticed something was wrong with the baby.

IT LOOKS LIKE TIME ONCE AGAIN TO POINT OUT THE NEWS OVERLOOKED BY MILANO'S CRUSADE TO BASH MEN.  MILANO NOW APPEARS TO EITHER BE NOT SLEEPING OR USING AN ALARM CLOCK SO SHE CAN MAN BASH MORE OFTEN THAN THE AVERAGE BABY

Faced with what happened, China told the cop: “If I hadn’t gotten so drunk, I guess my baby wouldn’t have died.”

Now, is that statement a claim of responsibility, or does it sound like a mother (who is certainly not immune to alcohol and other problems) wrapped up in guilt?

Most interesting, Robert Belloto, a staff pharmacist at Good Samaritan Hospital, where China brought the baby after finding her unconscious, testified that “he does not believe it would have been possible for Arnold to place the baby in the microwave because the woman was so intoxicated.”

I’m wondering if the microwave oven was checked. Had it been old and the door not sealed properly, well, it’s possible that microwaves leaked into the atmosphere and killed that child. For a newborn, it doesn’t take much.

Then again, it’s also possible that China put the child into the oven. But something tells me there’s more working here than a murder case.

11 Women Are on Death Row for Killing Their Kids

Beverley Allitt: Attentive pediatric nurse, suffering from bizarre Munchausen by Proxy syndrome, maims and murders many babies before the hospital understands the problem. Angels of Death - The Female Nurses: Nurses continue to murder their patients. Dr. Katherine Ramsland examines the motives and some high-profile and recent cases. Lena Baker: Seductive southern black woman and sadistic white man develop an irresistible but deadly attraction in a small backward community filled with hate. Sixty years later, Georgia pardons her in an attempt to heal festering wounds. Velma Barfield: This adoring mother and pious Christian grandmother had a secret habit -- she poisoned her husbands, boyfriends, elderly people in her care and even her mother. The amazing thing is how long this Black Widow serial poisoner got away with it. Sue Basso: Depraved woman traps mentally handicapped man so she can use him as slave and kill him for insurance. Elizabeth Bathory: This legendary countess is remembered for murdering women for fun and bathing in their blood to make herself more beautiful. Was there any truth to this heinous legend or was this a story concocted by her powerful political enemies? Celeste Beard: Steven Beard, a retired television executive, was startled awake to find his innards lying where his belly should have been. Conscious but bewildered, he reached for a phone on his nightstand and dialed 911 for Austin, Texas. Who would have guessed that his wife Celeste had manipulated her lesbian lover into being the "hit man"? She thought she had gotten away with murder, but. Martha Beck & Raymond Fernandez: The story of a desperately lonely overweight woman who lets herself fall into partnership with a man who murders women for money. The so-called Lonely Hearts Murders, entwined in voodoo magic and kinky sex, becomes one of the most sensational cases of the 1940s. New "Lonely Hearts" movie with John Travolta, Salma Hayek, Jared Leto and James Gandolfini is a satisfying case study. The film interweaves a detective's perspective to the story of the killer team. Bambi Bembenek: Escape of ex-cop and convicted murderer Ted Binion: Las Vegas casino owner mixes up a lethal brew of heroin, showgirls, silver bullion, and mobsters. The Black Widow: The methods and motives of this special brand of female serial killer. Includes a new chapter. Lizzie Borden: This classic has to be one of the most enduring murder mysteries America has ever produced. Elderly Andrew Borden, still in his heavy morning coat, reclines on a mohair-covered sofa, his boots on the floor so as not to soil the upholstery. As he naps, his wife, Abby, is on the floor of the guestroom upstairs, dead for the past hour and a half, killed by the same hand, with the same axe, that is about to strike him, as he sleeps. The bloodiness of the acts is startling. Along with the gruesome nature of the crimes is the unexpected character of the accused, not a hatchet-wielding maniac, but a church-going, Sunday-school-teaching, respectable, spinster-daughter, charged with parricide, the murder of parents, a crime worthy of Classical Greek tragedy. Many people believed she killed her father and stepmother, but recent forensic research suggests that she didn't. Joyce Lemay Cohen: The eyes that stare out from the Florida prison mug shot are unmistakably those of Joyce Lemay Cohen. Once as pretty as a fashion model, she has retained some of her attractive features umber-colored eyes, lush lips and noble cheekbones. But her hair is shorn, and she has gone gray. Something she would never have tolerated in the lavish life she once led. But after 15 years in prison, any remaining glimmer of glamour went dull long ago for Cohen. At age 24 she married a rich older man, Stanley Cohen, who introduced Joyce, his fourth wife, to a jet-set way of life. They lived in an historic mansion overlooking Biscayne Bay in Miami's ritzy Coconut Grove section. They drove Jaguars and flew in their own jet. They vacationed in one adult sandbox after another the Bahamas, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Las Vegas and Cancun, Mexico. Mrs. Cohen became accustomed to the fine things in life designer clothing, satin sheets, servants. She enjoyed her husband's wealth. She enjoyed his "Miami Vice" lifestyle. She enjoyed his social status. But over time the marriage began to lose its sheen. He was playing around on her and she was doing too much cocaine. Mary Ann Cotton: Murdered between 15-21 of her close relatives by arsenic poisoning. Why? For money, personal dislike or they got in her way over something she wanted. Frances Creighton & Everett Appelgate: New York classic story of a black widow and a psychopathic ladies man who create havoc in their community with pedophilia, arsenic poisoning and bad parenting. Nannie Doss: Lonely Hearts lady loved her men to death Diane Downs: "Somebody just shot my kids!" The blond woman yelled to the emergency room nurses. The two nurses teetered when they looked through the windows of the Nissan. Side panels were soaked in blood and amidst the blood lay three small children, one in the front passenger seat, two in the back. First glance told the nurses the children had been shot at very close range. Two of the children still breathed, although strenuously; the boy gasped for air. The child found slumped in the front seat appeared beyond help; despite frantic efforts by the doctors at the operating table, the damage had been lethal. She was pronounced dead moments after being wheeled to emergency. Someone without a heart had deliberately attempted to murder three kids in cold blood, and, despite the odds, despite a fate that looked gloomy, the caretakers hastened to keep that fate at bay and beat it at its own game: with deliberate intention. Who in the name of God could have aimed a pistol at three small children and pulled the trigger?" The facts came to light in a most suspicious manner and unlike those explained by the mother, Diane Downs. Ruth Ellis: The last woman hanged in Britain Female Mass Murderers: Many people think of mass murderers as men and most of them are, but here are some famous women mass murderers. Some of the psychology and motivations are different from male mass murderers. Kathleen Folbigg: Tragic crib deaths appear to be the reason that Kathleen Folbigg's babies died, but then her husband finds her terrifying diaries. Forensic Toxicology: The science of detecting poisons, the favorite weapon of Black Widows and women who kill. Dr. Katherine Ramsland presents the history of this science and the major cases it solved. Blue on Blue: Antoinette Frank: She connived her way into becoming a New Orleans cop, now she sits on death row for executing three people, including another cop. Dana Sue Gray: Former surgical nurse with a need for money and an obsession for extravagant shopping sprees kills several women and uses their assets to get her hair done and buy hundreds of dollars of goods. Belle Gunness: This Black Widow may have set the record in the killings of her husbands, lovers, and children. A new update explores how in her youth a boy's brutal treatment of her might have influenced her violent streak. Anna Marie Hahn: Arsenic Anna: Sweet young woman lures older benefactors to their deaths. Jean Harris: Headmistress of exclusive Madeira School for wealthy girls kills her unworthy lover, Dr. Herman Tarnower, the famous Scarsdale Diet doctor. Marie Hilley: Marie Hilley is a mystery. Her presence still hovers over her family and friends, and with it the deeply painful questions with no answers. What made her do such ghastly things? What motivated her complicated stories and alibis? Was there anybody that she truly loved? And, finally, who was the real Marie? Those who should have known her best knew her least. Marie murdered her husband, but it didnt stop there. She poisoned her daughter and other close relatives. Her murderous escapades undermined what should have been the most sacred of family relationships. When it appeared she would finally be brought to justice for her crimes, she disappeared and began life anew with an assumed identity. One persona after another, discarded when it no longer suited her needs. The story of Marie Hilley is a study in deceit, pathological obsession and serial murder. Genene Jones: Texas pediatric nurse takes over the care of babies and murders them by injecting one after another. Almost as criminal is how the hospitals and staff ignored the problem until Genene's shift became known as the Death Shift. The mother of the first victim saw Jones kneeling at the foot of her daughters grave, sobbing and wailing the child's name over and over. She rocked back and forth, apparently in deep anguish, as if Chelsea had been her own daughter. Winnie Ruth Judd: The "Trunk Murderess" In perspective Sante & Kenny Kimes: Sante Kimes and son Kenneth lived the same outrageously bold life of crime that made their predecessors Bonnie and Clyde famous for generations. This incestuous duo meticulously planned elaborate multimillion dollar scams and executed their wealthy victims without a scintilla of remorse. Katherine Knight: Katherine Mary Knight, though not the first person to skin and eat her lover, was arguably the most depraved monster in Australia's grizzly homicidal history. Once a loving little girl, she grew up around and, from a young age, worked in slaughterhouses. Her most cherished possession was a set of razor sharp boning knives, which she kept in pride of place above her bed. Given her future violence, is fair to say that this period in her life played a major role in the molding of the monster that she would become. But even today, the many visitors to Aberdeen's murder house still ponder how a middle-aged housewife, mother and grandmother could perpetrate such evil. The Last Stop: Women in the electric chair Sylvia Likens: Sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens was found murdered with "I'm a prostitute and proud of it" burned onto her stomach. The perpetrators of her slow, tortured death turned out to be the family that was caring for her and several neighborhood children. A new attempt to bring the story of this 1965 murder to the screen is underway for 2007, but does it give us any insight into how mother and group of children could commit such a horrible crime? Claudine Longet & Spider Sabich: Claudine Longet, the pretty French songbird, and handsome, virile ski star Spider Sabich were a beautiful couple. That is, until he was at hot end of a smoking gun and she was at the other. During the funeral, she dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief, and now and then her shoulders convulsed. On one hand, she had a right to be there. No one doubted that Spider had once been in love with Longet. On the other hand, she was utterly out of place. She was, after all, the woman who killed him. She said it was an accident. His friends and family were not so sure. A search for the truth would play out over the ensuing year. Before the last breathless gossip was whispered and the final expose written, the Sabich-Longet affair would develop into one of the decade's most riveting celebrity spectacles. Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy: Profiler Pat Brown describes this bizarre form of psychopathic behavior that particularly affects women. Judith Ann Neelley: Eighteen-year-old Judith Neelley lured teenagers to a horrible death, but only after they had been raped and tortured. It was the consensus of those who listened to the various witnesses that Judith was the brains behind the most serious of the couple's offenses. It was she who had persuaded Alvin to participate with her in the brutal crimes, not the other way around. When they had lured Lisa Millican into their car and molested and killed her, it was Judith who injected her with liquid drain cleaner and who then shot her. She was also the person who shot John Hancock and left him for dead. The question for a jury was whether she had done so because she herself was psychologically disturbed or whether she had been forcibly subordinated to Alvin in such a manner that she would do whatever he wanted, even when he was not around. They had decided that she was aware of what she was doing and had not been under anyone else's power. Leslie Nelson: A very confused transsexual who became fixated on her hand guns and AK-47 assault rifle, not as weapons but as real children -- an obsession that led to the murder of a cop who Nelson feared would take away her "babies." Philadelphia Poison Ring: Masterminds of Philadelphia's Poison Ring run a Black Widow training camp preying on Italian immigrants. Prenatal Predators: Obsession with babies leads to unthinkable acts of violence. A look at recent and high-profile cases and the mind-set of women who become prenatal predators. Dorothea Puente: The stench hovered over the Sacramento neighborhood like a putrid fog, sickly sweet and pungent. Everyone knew where it came from - the yard of the pale blue Victorian at 1426 F Street, where Dorothea Puente rented out rooms to elderly and infirm boarders. No one suspected that the sweet-faced, grandmotherly lady was systematically drugging and killing her frail boarders and burying their remains in the yard she so lovingly tended. She got away with murder for years. Piper Rountree: Lawyer with many emotional problems and history of instability takes revenge on her ex-husband after nasty divorce and custody battle. While the murder was premeditated, many stupid mistakes on her part doomed her defense. Darlie Routier: In 1997, a Texas court found Darlie Lynn Routier guilty of probably the worst of human crimes: killing two of her natural children in cold-blood. Motive is still a mystery, but the prosecution painted her as a shrewish, materialistic young woman who, sensing her lavish lifestyle crumbling, slew her two sons Damon and Devon in a mad attempt to resuscitate her and her husband's personal economy. In all fairness, Darlie Lynn Routier, despite some extremely damaging evidence, may be innocent, say many. Fingerprint evidence and trial errors create some doubts about her guilt. Is she one of the most heartless criminals in the state's history or a victim of an overly-aggressive prosecution? Madeleine Smith: Did Madeleine Smith poison her lover? A Victorian mystery. Susan Smith: South Carolina woman drowns her children in her car so that she will be more "marriageable" to the boyfriend who rejected her. Ruth Snyder & Judd Gray: The real story of lust, greed and murder that inspired the great film noir classics Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Body Heat. The Sunset Strip Murders: Carol found Doug to be suddenly quite controlling. He demanded that she do what he wanted and threatened to abandon her if she did not comply. He wanted a sex slave, someone who would see to all of his needs, mundane and bizarre. She gave in, expecting that in return he would be true to her. But he soon told her that he was tired of having sex with her and needed something new and more exciting. He brought prostitutes home, and to please him Carol went along with it. It was a long hot summer for LAPD. Bodies of young women were found mutilated, even headless, and dumped along the embankments around the freeway ramps. Soon a call came into the station from a woman who implicated her boyfriend in the killings but who refused to offer details that could help to locate him. She could have been just a crank caller, but she was correct about how the murders had been done. She knew details that had not been released to the media. But the switchboard cut her off and she did not call back. If she had, some lives could have been saved and she might not have taken the path she did. It was no crank call. Team Killers, Part Two: Dr. Katherine Ramsland looks at the psychology of several famous killing teams. Team Killers, Part Three: Psychological insight into types of team killers and some famous murder partners by Dr. Katherine Ramsland. Teen Killer Couples: Holly Harvey, 15, had lived with her grandparents Carl, 74, and Sarah, 73, Collier at their Fayette County home in Georgia for just four months when she decided that she had had enough. Holly had no intention of going to church as her grandparents had hoped or conforming to the rules imposed on her. Nor did she want to give up her one true love: Sandra (Sandy) Ketchum, 16, whom she was forbidden to see. She was going to live her life the way she deemed fit. So in the summer of 2004, she recruited her lover Sandy to assist her in a gruesome plan, which they believed would allow them to gain freedom and be able to stay together forever. Their devious plot would eventually lead to the brutal murders of both Colliers. On September 17, 2003, firefighters and police rushed to a burning house on Detroit's east side. Inside one of the bedrooms, sitting in her recliner, was Bertha Atkins, 64. Her remains had been battered and burned. Atkins had been hit with a claw hammer, which pierced through her upper lip and tongue. She had then been doused with gasoline and set on fire. Larketa Collier, 16, the granddaughter of the victim, and her lover, Sharon Patterson, 17, had just returned from seeing a horror movie. A witness had seen the two girls calming leaving the burning house, so they immediately became primary suspects in the case. Marybeth Tinning: Marybeth Tinning was a familiar sight in Schenectady's trauma centers. She usually came running into one of the city's emergency rooms, confused and hysterical, typically with one of her eight children cradled in her arms, either dead or near dead. The medical staff knew Marybeth well. Some hated her. Others felt great sorrow and pity for her. That's because from January 3, 1972, the day her daughter Jennifer died, until December 20, 1985, when Tami Lynne was found dead in her home, all eight of Marybeth Tinning's children died suddenly and usually without any rational explanation. Marybeth, now sixty-four, faced the parole board in New York with some support from very unusual sources. Karla Faye Tucker: Texas's controversial murderess Lana Turner: Lana Turner was a true movie queen beautiful, glamorous, classy, and a damned good serious actress to boot. What she lacked was good judgment when it came to men. After her fourth unsuccessful marriage with only her daughter, Cheryl, to show for it, Lana was ready for something different. His real name was Johnny Stompanato, but he called himself John Steele. He had the wavy hair and olive-skinned good looks of a movie star with a physique to match. When she found out that he was a gangster, bankrolled by the famous Mickey Cohen, she made the mistake of not ending the relationship right away. He was at once appealing and very dangerous forbidden fruit, but poison fruit from the standpoint of publicity. Embarrassing publicity caused Lana to be seen in public less and less with him, particularly at the Oscar Awards ceremony when she had been nominated. Angry that he couldnt escort her on her night in the spotlight, Johnny left her bleeding and bruised in her bed. Unable to get out of this messy and dangerous relationship without career-damaging publicity, Lana didnt take any legal action. But Cheryl, 14, emotionally torn apart by Johnnys brutality to her mother, took a knife and stabbed him to death. The coroner's inquest into Johnnys death was the most anticipated television event ever. Depending on how Lana played this role of a lifetime, her daughter was either going to walk away a free woman or be charged with the death of her mother's boyfriend and spend the rest of her life in jail. Carolyn Warmus: Every married man who ever thought of cheating on his wife quaked when he saw Glenn Close as the maniacal girlfriend in the movie "Fatal Attraction." In 1989, a real life Fatal Attraction burst into the New York headlines in a terrifying combination of sex, obsession and death. Attractive and sexy heiress Carolyn Warmus goes after her man and murders his wife. Early in the trial Carolyn appeared in a short, very tight, very sexy miniskirt that had photographers snapping away and film crews tripping over each other to get a better view. A photo of Carolyn, wearing a short skirt, which exposed her nicely formed legs, appeared in the nations newspapers and news magazines over the next few months. Always dressed to perfection in designer clothes, Carolyn paraded each day into the courthouse more like a model on a runway than a murder defendant. With her blonde hair, confident style and voluptuous body, she was a femme fatale right out of 1940s film noir, a woman who broke all the rules. She was a symbol of a love gone wrong, an affair that spiraled out of control until it ended in murder and betrayal. She was the rich, spoiled heiress on trial for her life who wanted a man so much, she was willing to kill to have him all for herself. Aileen Wuornos: Female killer preyed upon truck drivers. New chapter by Sue Russell, author of Lethal Intent, sheds new light on the female serial killer. Women Who Kill, Part One: Author Katherine Ramsland looks at some of the most notorious cases of criminally violent women, their motives and methods, ranging from the greedy to delusional to outright psychopathic. Women Who Kill, Part Two: Just because a female killer gets only local media coverage, it doesn't mean that her crimes are not worthy of the national news. Compared to their male counterparts, a number of women who have killed in weird or vicious ways are barely known outside their hometowns. Dr. Katherine Ramsland looks at the psychology of the various motives for which women kill: some for money, some for revenge, and most distressingly some to steal the growing child from their victim's womb. Andrea Yates: Woman drowns her five children -- one at a time after her husband goes to work. Is she psychotic or a monster? Incorrect expert testimony causes murder convictions to be overturned.

DISTORTING THE TRUTH ABOUT SPOUSAL MURDER

HOW WOMEN'S ADVOCATES TRY TO FOOL YOU ABOUT SPOUSAL MURDER

Consider the following paragraph from page 118 of the World Health Organization's (WHO) huge pdf file, "World report on violence and health." It is an example of how ideological groups try to fool you about gender violence:

“Studies from Australia, Canada, Israel, South Africa and the United States of America show that 40–70% of female murder victims were killed by their husbands or boyfriends, frequently in the context of an ongoing abusive relationship. This contrasts starkly with the situation of male murder victims. In the United States, for example, only 4% of men murdered between 1976 and 1996 were killed by their wives, ex-wives or girlfriends. In Australia between 1989 and 1996, the figure was 8.2%”

Sounds really horrific for women relative to men, right? There's just one problem. While percentages don't lie, they can distort the truth when used without the actual numbers that show how the percentages were derived. (Time magazine once tried this trick regarding the number of women murdered in the workplace vs. the number of men murdered.)

By leaving out actual homicide numbers and using only percentages, WHO is able to suggest that in the U.S., for example, nearly 14 times as many women are murdered by intimates as men. (To get the figure of nearly 14 times, I averaged the 40-70% of women murdered in the five countries, getting a result of 55%. I then divided the 55% by the 4% of men murdered in the U.S., which comes out to 13.75.)

What WHO is banking on, I suspect, is this: when reading the paragraph, we unconsciously assume – because the huge report at this point has already focused almost exclusively on the horrors of violence against women -- that women are murdered in an actual number equal to or greater than the number of men murdered, even though the homicide figures by sex are disclosed elsewhere in the report. To further nudge us into sympathizing with female victims of violence, WHO employs the emphatic term “only 4%” to address the men murdered by intimates in the U.S.

To get a true picture of men and women murdered by intimates, consider the following figures on homicides by sex in the U.S. in 2000 (see "Cable TV's Crime Shows Love White Female Homicide Victims," which provides the government source for the numbers):

Men------12,407
Women---3,799

Now let's do the simple math:

Four percent of 12,407 is 496 men murdered by intimates. Fifty-five percent -- the average of 40-70% in the five countries -- of 3,799 is 2,089 women murdered by intimates. If in the U.S. only 40% of female murder victims were killed by intimates, the number is 1,520. That's still over three times as many women murdered by intimates as men -- but it's a far cry from the nearly 14 times as many that WHO would like us to picture.

Into this we must add the observations of Dr. Warren Farrell, who writes in Chapter Six of his book Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say:

The basic trick of the Ad Council's ad is that a high percentage of murdered wives are murdered by their husband or ex-husband exactly because married women are so rarely murdered to begin with. 

But aren't husbands more likely to kill their wives than vice-versa? Again, we enter the arena of "who's the biggest victim?" It bothers me to have to document that the sexes kill their spouses about equally, but there are life-and-death consequences that result from feminists persuading the public that it is almost exclusively husbands who kill wives. It leads to financing of only women's shelters and hotlines without shelters and hotlines for men, thus leaving men with no place to go when they are in danger, so he becomes a powder keg that can endanger his wife rather than someone who can find a supportive retreat while he cools off.

The brief answer to this accusation is that no one knows for sure which sex kills the other more. In a second we'll see why it's likely that more wives kill husbands, but until the government is willing to collect data about the three female methods of killing, we can only do an educated guess. I'll explain...

On the surface, the Bureau of Justice reports women are the perpetrators in 41% of spousal murders. However, the male method of killing is with a knife or gun, done by himself. The three female methods of killing are different. The third female method is poisoning, but I'll deal first with the first two methods, both of which are "multiple offender killings" — that is, a wife either hires a professional killer or persuades a boyfriend. We only know that in multiple offender killings there are four times as many husbands as victims than wives, according to the FBI. These multiple offender killings are meant, of course, to not be discovered, but even a multiple offender killing that is discovered is not recorded by the government as a wife killing a husband, it is listed separately by the FBI as a "multiple offender killing." That is, the 41% figure does not include either of the first two female methods of killing.

How common are contract killings? We don't know. Perhaps the best hint we have of how many husbands could be killed by contract comes from the FBI, reporting that some 7800 men were killed without the killer being identified (vs. 1500 women). This number is almost 9 times larger than all of the wives killed by spouses and ex-spouses put together . However, this "9 times as many" figure is a very inadequate hint since many of these men were doubtless killed by other men, and many are unmarried — and our comparisons are among married people.

Most important, of the hundred or so contract killings about which I have read, only a small percentage were originally recognized as such. The very purpose in hiring a professional was to have the husband's death appear as an accident so she can collect insurance money. And that is also the purpose of the third female method: poisoning.

Joyce Cohen exemplifies a typical contract killing. Stanley Cohen was a Florida millionaire when Joyce became his secretary. Eventually they got married, but soon got bored enough with each other that, among other things, they had not had sex for two years. (I did not personally investigate this.) Joyce feared a divorce would return her to being a secretary. So she used $100,000 of Stanley's money to hire some young men to kill her husband. When he was asleep and naked, she had him shot four times in the head with his own gun. 80 Joyce's motivation is obvious (although statistically her existence as a spouse-killer is invisible).

A husband is much more likely to kill in an emotional fit of rage (so much for the rational sex!). Or he kills his wife and children, and then turns the gun to his own head. Next time you read about a husband killing a wife in the newspaper, read a little further in the article and you'll be surprised to see how often he also kills himself. And obviously the killing of himself indicates that money is not his primary motivation. When people commit suicide, it is because they feel there is no one who loves them or needs them.

In brief, a wife's style of killing reflects her motivation which requires the killing not be detected; a husband's style of killing reflects his motivation and, well, a husband who kills himself is pretty likely to be caught — a dead husband is a dead giveaway. Even if her killing does get detected, it is much more likely to never be recorded as a spouse killing — but as a "multiple offender" killing, or an accident or a heart attack. When a woman is murdered, we are more likely to track down the killer than when a man is murdered.

The next time you see an article that is obviously attempting to impose on you a certain view by using percentages but no numbers, ask the writer and his/her editor to provide the numbers so you can get the complete picture.

CONTRARY TO THE CONSTANT MAN HATING BARRAGE, THE WORLD IS FILLED WITH FEMALE KILLERS AND ASSORTED EVIL DOERS.  HERE IS A BRIEF SMATTERING:

Susan "Sadie May Glutz" Atkins
Manson Family Member, Murderer
Susan "Sadie" Atkins is a former member of the Charles Manson family. She swore before a Grand Jury, that under the direction of Charlie Manson, she stabbed actress Sharon Tate.

Suzanne Basso
Kidnapper, Murderer
Basso kidnapped a 59-year old retarded man and brutally beat him with various items resulting in his death.

Kenisha Berry
Baby Killer
Berry brutally suffocated her 4-day-old baby boy.

Linda Carty
Kidnapper, Murderer
Carty hogtied a woman who had a three-day-old baby, taped a bag over her head and suffocated her.

Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme
Mason Family Member, Attempted Assassination
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme became the voice of cult leader, Charlie Manson, when he was sent to prison. She also pointed a gun at President Ford, for which she is now serving a life sentence.

Cathy Lynn Henderson
Baby Killer, Kidnapper
Henderson was convicted in the abduction and murder of a 3-month-old baby boy she was babysitting.

Brittany Holberg
Robber, Murderer
Holberg robbed and murdered an 80-year-old man, striking him with a hammer and stabbing him nearly 60 times.

Karla Homolka
Rapist, Torturer, Murderer
Karla Homolka, one of Canada's most horrific female convicts, has been released from prison after serving a 12-year sentence for her involvement in drugging, raping, torturing and killing young girls over a decade ago. The dead teens included her own young sister who she was offered to her boyfriend as a gift.

Stacey Lannert
Murderer
On July 4, 1990, Stacey Ann Lannert, age 18, shot and killed her father, Tom Lannert, as he lay sleeping in the family's St. John, Missouri, home. In her statement to the police Stacey claimed that her father had sexually abused her. She was later found guilty of first degree murder of her father and sentenced to life in prison

Kimberly McCarthy
Murderer
McCarthy stabbed a 70-year-old woman repeatidly resulting in her death.

Blanche Moore
Murderer
Moore had a bad habit of poisoning the men in her life with arsenic. She is currently on death row for killing a boyfriend.

Frances Elaine Newton
Child Killer, Murderer
Newton shot and killed her husband, her seven-year-old son and her 21-month-old daughter for insurance money.

Carlette Parker
Kidnapper, Thief, Murderer
Parker kidnapped an 88-year-old woman, withdrew money from her account, pepper-sprayed her, then drowned her in a bathtub.

Darlie Routier
Child Killer
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Erica Sheppard
Robbery, Murderer
Sheppard wanted her victim's car, so she slashed her throat with a knife five times and beat her with a statue.

Christina S. Walters
Murderer
As part of a gang-initiation, Walters randomly selected three teenaged girls and shot them. Two of the girls died, one survived.

Andrea Yates
Child Killer
A profile of Andrea Yates, her life, her marriage to Rusty Yates, and the tragic events that led up to her drowning her five children.

IF BAD ACTS BY MEN ARE GOING TO BE NOTED MULTIPLE TIMES DAILY, SO ARE BAD ACTS BY WOMEN, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FAIRNESS IN REPORTING

In a horrible and bizarre tragedy, police in Houston, Texas, today reported that a woman called them asking for someone to come to the home to look in on her children.

When police arrived at the house, 36 year-old Andrea Yates told them she killed her five children. They discovered the lifeless bodies of the children, aged 6 months to 7 years. Initial reports indicate that the woman drowned each child in the bathtub.

At this time no indication has been given as to why the woman would commit such an unthinkable, dreadful act, other than that she had experienced post-partum depression. The woman's husband, father of the children, was notified at the nearby Johnson Space Center, where he is employed.

There are no words to adequately express the horror and shock evoked in reaction to such an incident.

This woman is obviously a deranged, sick individual who did the most unnatural thing possible in this world – taking the lives of her very own flesh and blood.

Mass murder has become all too commonplace in modern society, by various, equally evil, methods. Stabbings and beatings and shootings in public places. Murder by drowning committed by mothers of their own children.

What answers can there be for such irrational, illogical and criminal acts?

What measures could possibly be enacted to prevent such killings?

It seems readily apparent that sick minds will employ any means at their disposal if they are so warped in mind and so devoid of heart to even conceive of such despicable acts.

At times such as these, public reaction is understandable and predictable.

However, the words and deeds of our supposed government leaders often, though highly selectively, focus on only one kind of the above crimes: those involving a firearm.

Never once have they clamored to ban baseball bats or knives or, now, bathtubs. Nor have they called for background checks – or closing flea market loopholes, for that matter – for any of these items used legally and lawfully everday by all of our citizens.

That, of course, would be crazy.

But when it comes to firearms, it’s a different story.

The Left breathlessly pounces on any of these crimes, demanding that the rights of law-abiding citizens be curtailed and trampled because some sicko committed murder.

That’s because the Left and its media promoters have deemed that the unconstitutional abridgement of the right to keep and bear arms has somehow become, improperly and falsely, an acceptable course of action.

And the sad fact is that never have any of these laws done anything other than restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens, due to what should be obvious: Criminals by definition do not obey the law in the first instance.

Never mind that they refused for eight years to enforce the 20,000 gun laws already on the books.

But the Left knows that and doesn’t really care one iota, because they have the political issue, which is all they ever want: to appeal to the mindless, feel-good, lowest common denominator.

Rather than lionize murderers such as McVeigh and Garza as they were rightly put to death for their heinous crimes, the media would do well to look at themselves, turning their thoughts and attention inward, to reflect and take responsibility for their part in running down our traditional values and our long-held notions of right and wrong.

And while they are at it, they should examine the questionable ethics and morals of the 49 senators who voted against the Boy Scouts of America last week, in a shameful display intended to trash the reputation of a youth group that has done nothing more than adhere to its deeply held beliefs and morals. Not surprisingly, the media also piled on to vilify the Scouts and those courageous senators who stood up for our young people.

Is it any wonder that the Clinton-inspired me, me, me philosophy has wrought the tragic devaluing of humanity, resulting in the brutal taking of life as has increasingly occurred since he first cast his shadow in the Oval Office?

The time for niceties and subtleties is long past.

Just ask the poor father whose own life was wrecked today.

July 19, 1908, Sunday

Section: Special Cable News Section, Page C8, 1081 words

The dead bodies of Ernest Glock, janitor of the Cordova Court apartments at 608 and 610 West 178th Street, and his wife, Sarah, were found in the rooms they occupied in the basement of the house yesterday morning under circumstances which indicate that the woman killed her husband in his sleep and then committed suicide. [ END OF FIRST PARAGRAPH ]

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Ismael Kasooha
Kampala

Evas Ntegyereize of Kibaale district has killed her husband, Charles Biryomumaisho, for allegedly selling off a piglet without her consent.

The criminal investigations department officer, Michael Ogwal, said Ntegyereize, from Kyebumba village in Bwikara sub-county, used a blunt stick to hit Biryomumaisho, 56, several times on the head.

Biryomumaisho allegedly sold the piglet at sh20,000 without her consent. Some relatives said Biryomumaisho had only used sh2,000 to buy alcohol at the time of his death. The couple had six children and had stayed together for over 28 years.

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